How to Make a Gif Animation Using Pictures for Your Website/twitter Background

I have learnt some quick techniques and would like to share with you on how to make a simple GIF animation using Adobe Photoshop CS6. To me it is interesting to have a different way of viewing and sharing captured photos with friends in a digital way.

?Thank you for posting the tutorial Fiishm, but I had an a small piece of advice for you.

I would recommend starting with File > Scripts > Load Files onto Stack when you are opening your original starting images.

Once you have all of your image files loaded, start up the Window > Timeline just like your guide says, then click on the Create Frame Animation.

On your step 3, you don't indicate which of the two options to pick when you first open the Timeline window. My default was Create Video Timeline. I had to click on the drop down and change my selection to Create Frame Animation.

Once that is done, in the top right hand corner of your Timeline window, click on the icon that looks like 5 lines stacked, with the downward facing triangle which indicates there is a drop down menu available.

One the drop down menu, select Make Frames From Layers and BOOM, you should be good. I would recommend you edit your Step 4 to include this info. It automates the 1 picture per layer task that you were doing manually in your guide.

Note that your way does work and work fine, but if you use the Load Files onto Stack and Make Frames From Layers, it streamlines your guide. If you would edit your tutorial to include those two steps, it would make it flawless.

Either way, thanks so much for posting this. I now am the proud owner of a kinda dorktastic anime gif, which I plan to completely abuse on reddit.com/r/anime lol.

Thanks bwh13 for viewing this tutorial. Yea you will need to install Adobe Photoshop for this tutorial. But actually If you are still interested in making a gif animation for your pictures, you can try out this website http://gifmaker.me/ .This website (or websites that are similar) allows you can create animated gif images online freely and easily, no registration required.